The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially, the "Blues Hall of Fame" was not a physical building, but a listing of people who have significantly contributed to blues music. Started in 1980, it honors people who have performed, recorded, or documented blues. The museum opened to the public on May 8, 2015.
| Year | Book/magazine | Author(s) | Years published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Living Blues | 1970–present | |
| Blues and Gospel Records 1902–1942 | Robert M.W. Dixon and John Godrich | 1964–1997 | |
| Blues Unlimited | 1963–1987 | ||
| 1983 | Blues Who’s Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers | Sheldon Harris | 1979 |
| 1985 | Blues Records 1943–1966 | Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven | 1968 |
| 1986 | Chicago Breakdown (Chicago Blues) | Mike Rowe | 1973–1981 |
| 1987 | The Story of the Blues | Paul Oliver | 1969 |
| 1988 | Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues | Paul Oliver | 1960 |
| 1989 | Feel Like Going Home | Peter Guralnick | 1971 |
| 1990 | Big Bill Blues: William Broonzy’s Story as told to Yannick Bruynoghe | Big Bill Broonzy | 1955 |
| 1991 | The Country Blues | Samuel Charters | 1959 |
| Big Road Blues | David Evans | 1982 | |
| 1992 | I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story | Willie Dixon, Don Snowden | 1989 |
| 1993 | Urban Blues | Charles Keil | 1966 |
| 1994 | Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians | Lawrence Cohn | 1993 |
| 1995 | Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom | Peter Guralnick | 1986 |
| Searching for Robert Johnson: The Life and Legend of the ‘King of the Delta Blues' | Peter Guralnick | 1989 | |
| 1996 | The Land Where the Blues Began | Alan Lomax | 1993 |
| 1997 | Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm & Blues | Arnold Shaw (author) | 1978 |
| 1998 | Blues from the Delta | William Ferris | 1970 |
| 1999 | The World Don't Owe Me Nothing | David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards | 1997 |
| 2000 | The Country Blues | Samuel Charters | 1959 |
| 2001 | Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story | Helen Oakley Dance | 1987 |
| 2002 | Spinning Blues Into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records | Nadine Cohodas | 2000 |
| 2003 | Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters | Robert Gordon | 2002 |
| 2004 | Juke Blues magazine | 1985–present | |
| 2005 | Blues People: Negro Music in White America | Amiri Baraka | 1963 |
| 2006 | Blues & Rhythm magazine | 1984–present | |
| Chasin' That Devil's Music | Gayle Dean Wardlow | 1998 | |
| 2007 | Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story | Tony Glover, Scott Dirks & Ward Gaines | 2002 |
| 2008 | Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf | James Segrest & Mark Hoffman | 2004 |
| 2011 | Walking to New Orleans: The Story of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues | John Broven | 1978 |
| 2012 | The Voice of the Blues | Jim O'Neal | 2002 |
| 2013 | Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records | Rob Bowman | 2003 |
| 2014 | Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke | Peter Guralnick | 2005 |
| 2016 | Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis | Jeff Todd Titon | 1977 |
| 2017 | Father of the Blues | W.C. Handy | 1941 |
| 2018 | I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy | Bob Reisman | 2011 |
| 2019 | Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University – Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941–1942 | John Wesley Work III | 2005 |
| 2020 | Earl Hooker, Blues Master | Sebastian Danchin | 2001 |
| 2022 [1] | Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast | Bruce Bastin | 1986 |
| 2023 [2] [4] | The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville 1899-1926 | Lynn Abbott & Doug Seroff | 2017 |
| 2024 | Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday –Pantheon | Angela Davis | 1998 |
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"Rocket 88" is a song that was first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, in March 1951. The recording was credited to "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats"; while Brenston did provide the vocals, the band was actually Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. The single reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie. The museum documents the history of rock music and the artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures and personnel who have influenced its development.
The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. It was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project. Since then MoPOP has organized dozens of exhibits, 17 of which have toured across the U.S. and internationally.
Chester Arthur Burnett, better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was at the forefront of transforming acoustic Delta blues into electric Chicago blues, and over a four-decade career, recorded blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and psychedelic rock. He is regarded as one of the most influential blues musicians of all time.
Esther Phillips was an American singer, best known for her R&B vocals. She rose to prominence in 1950, scoring several major R&B hits including "Double Crossing Blues" and "Mistrustin' Blues" under the moniker "Little Esther". In the 1960s, she achieved chart success with the country song "Release Me" and recorded in the pop, jazz, blues and soul genres. Phillips received a Grammy nomination for her single "Home Is Where the Hatred Is" in 1973 and her disco recording of "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" was a major hit in 1975. She died from liver and kidney failure due to long-term drug abuse in 1984.
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The Blues Music Awards, formerly known as the W. C. Handy Awards, are awards presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up to foster blues heritage. The awards were originally named in honor of W. C. Handy, "Father of the Blues". The first award was presented in 1980 and is "universally recognized as the highest accolade afforded musicians and songwriters in blues music". In 2006, the awards were renamed Blues Music Awards in an effort to increase public appreciation of the significance of the awards.
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 1961.
David "Junior" Kimbrough was an American blues musician. His best-known works are "Keep Your Hands off Her" and "All Night Long". In 2023, he was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame.
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John Primer is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and guitarist who played behind Junior Wells in the house band at Theresa's Lounge and as a member of the bands of Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and Magic Slim before launching an award-winning career as a front man, carrying forward the traditional Windy City sound into the 21st century.
The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan. They were one of the most commercially successful American pop music groups of the 1960s and helped propel the Motown label to international fame. The group's repertoire has included aspects of soul, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, doo-wop, jazz, and show tunes.
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